Preface
The dawn of organic dye (color) chemistry will undoubtedly be Sir W. H. Perkin’s
serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye Mauve (Mauveine) in 1856,
and has led to the first synthetic indigo in 1878 by J. F. W. Adolf von Baeyer, Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry in 1905. Nearly 100 years after the first synthetic indigo, the
traditional organic dyes as dyestuffs and pigments have developed into “Functional
Dyes” which is a term coined by Japanese dye-chemists T. Kitao and Z. Yoshida
et al. in the late 1970s, defined as attractive materials generating a new function that
is changing the color and luminescence, recording information, or converting energy
(light to electricity or vice versa, etc.) by external stimuli including light, temperature, pressure, pH, electric and magnetic fields, atmospheric gas, etc. Indeed, the
first International Symposium on Functional Dyes was successfully held in Osaka,
Japan, in 1989, which resulted in major breakthroughs in functional dye chemistry
and technology. The symposium was followed by two major symposia, East Asia
Symposium on Functional Dyes and Advanced Materials (EAS) and International
Symposium on Functional π -Electron Systems (F-π). As the result of considerable theoretical, synthetic, and physical researches, functional dyes have actually
been applied as semiconductors, emitters in optoelectronics devices, photosensitizers, optical and luminescent sensors for biological and environmental monitoring
systems, and therapeutic agents for medical purposes, and so on.
Today, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been adopted as the 2030
agenda for sustainable development by all United Nations Member States in 2015. It
provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now
and into the future. As we can see, functional dyes have attracted growing interest
as one of the most promising materials contributing to SDGs. Judging from the
world situation, we sense just the dawning of a new era for functional dye chemistry.
Consequently, this prompted us to write a new book regarding functional dyes passing
on the wisdom and expertise to the next generation.
“Color Chemistry” (published by Wiley-VCH, the first, second, and third editions
in 1987, 1991, and 2003, respectively) edited by Heinrich Zollinger, who was an
inspiring teacher and researcher of Dyestuff and Textile Chemistry, has been a very
successful textbook for synthesis, properties, and applications of organic dyes and
pigments. Klaus Hunger edited “Industrial Dyes” (published by Wiley-VCH in 2003),
v
The dawn of organic dye (color) chemistry will undoubtedly be Sir W. H. Perkin’s
serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye Mauve (Mauveine) in 1856,
and has led to the first synthetic indigo in 1878 by J. F. W. Adolf von Baeyer, Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry in 1905. Nearly 100 years after the first synthetic indigo, the
traditional organic dyes as dyestuffs and pigments have developed into “Functional
Dyes” which is a term coined by Japanese dye-chemists T. Kitao and Z. Yoshida
et al. in the late 1970s, defined as attractive materials generating a new function that
is changing the color and luminescence, recording information, or converting energy
(light to electricity or vice versa, etc.) by external stimuli including light, temperature, pressure, pH, electric and magnetic fields, atmospheric gas, etc. Indeed, the
first International Symposium on Functional Dyes was successfully held in Osaka,
Japan, in 1989, which resulted in major breakthroughs in functional dye chemistry
and technology. The symposium was followed by two major symposia, East Asia
Symposium on Functional Dyes and Advanced Materials (EAS) and International
Symposium on Functional π -Electron Systems (F-π). As the result of considerable theoretical, synthetic, and physical researches, functional dyes have actually
been applied as semiconductors, emitters in optoelectronics devices, photosensitizers, optical and luminescent sensors for biological and environmental monitoring
systems, and therapeutic agents for medical purposes, and so on.
Today, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been adopted as the 2030
agenda for sustainable development by all United Nations Member States in 2015. It
provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now
and into the future. As we can see, functional dyes have attracted growing interest
as one of the most promising materials contributing to SDGs. Judging from the
world situation, we sense just the dawning of a new era for functional dye chemistry.
Consequently, this prompted us to write a new book regarding functional dyes passing
on the wisdom and expertise to the next generation.
“Color Chemistry” (published by Wiley-VCH, the first, second, and third editions
in 1987, 1991, and 2003, respectively) edited by Heinrich Zollinger, who was an
inspiring teacher and researcher of Dyestuff and Textile Chemistry, has been a very
successful textbook for synthesis, properties, and applications of organic dyes and
pigments. Klaus Hunger edited “Industrial Dyes” (published by Wiley-VCH in 2003),
v